Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo step out for a NCIS: Tony & Ziva screening at Spyscape on Wednesday (September 3) in New York City.
The stars and executive producers of the NCIS spinoff gave some super fans a sneak peek of the new show the night before it debuted on Paramount+.
The series picks up years later, after Ziva was presumed dead and Tony left the NCIS team, but are reunited and raising their daughter in Paris. However, in the series premiere, we learn that the two characters actually broke up sometime between their January 2020 reunion and the fall of 2025.
Ahead of the premiere, the stars dished on why they had to break up the couple and how the series plays out to bring them back together.
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“That is what the whole show is about,” Michael told Us Weekly.
“The show itself is a kind of unreliable narrator,” he teased. “That is why you sort of think they’re together for a second, but then they’re not, but then they might be. Then you’re like, ‘Wait, which timeline am I in?’”
He added that as the episodes “move around and you go through this kind of kaleidoscopic hall of funhouse mirrors,” their dynamic is “teased out to make more sense.”
Cote noted that fans will “enjoy the journey of how they get back together.”
“They need to have a payoff,” she adds, saying flashbacks come in “to understand what happened and how they did get back [in sync].”
The first three episodes of NCIS: Tony & Ziva is now streaming on Paramount+, with new episodes dropping Thursdays weekly.
Source: justjared.com